How rare is the Guitar album on vinyl? I missed one relatively cheap on an auction and I few really bad for it...

If anyone is willing to sell their SUNPYG boxed set and/or the Guitar album, I am willing to buy...

I found a sealed copy about ten years ago, and I think I only paid around $20 for it.

5 years ago, I got a VG+ one around $15 on eBay.At the time in Chicago, several used record stores near North Clark Street had sealed copies of YCDTOSA Sampler around $10.That's just to confirm that if you are lucky enough, you might still find sealed copies of LPs from the late 80's at a very reasonable price.Wait and see.

As they say on eil.com: "FRANK ZAPPA Shut Up 'N Play Yer Guitar (Rare 1981 Japanese 20-track 3-LP vinyl set, housed in a wide-spined single pocket picture sleeve complete with the original inners, illustrated 6-page fold-out Japanese text insert and obi-strip - 60AP2268~70)."

I got this on Friday (11.11) - directly from a Japanese shop, not from eil.com - and the description above is accurate. I have listened to sides 3, 4 and 6 so far, and the sound is clear and bright in the treble and full in the bass, as you would expect from a mint Japanese LP.

Apart from the LPs themselves, the package as a whole is a beautiful thing - it's much slimmer than the US and European boxes, and has very good printing quality. The inner sleeves are in light cardboard, rather than the ordinary glossy paper on the other issues. The records are protected by typical Japanese plastics inside the cardboard inners.

The portrait on the inner sleeves is printed in reverse (!) - as a mirror image of the original. The typography on the back follows the first issue BPR mail order series/European box, but it's all printed in monochrome, with a sepia tint. Sepia letters on white background. The inner sleeve portrait is also sepia tinted monochrome.

_________________We make a special art in an environment hostile to dreamers. Frank Zappa, 1971

I can't find any release information on the obi, but the date 1982, 1, 21 is mentioned in the last page/last sentence of the booklet. I can't give you the context, though, as I don't read Japanese.

This is getting more and more exciting.Can you please take a picture or scan this part and post it here?Muchas gracias

I'm sorry - I'm not that technically advanced/inclined... The picture I posted is from eil.com - I put it up because the album looks exactly like mine, apart from a slightly dented bottom right corner on the cover of my copy.

BTW, the labels are marked as copyrighted and produced in 1981 (unlike the American box, which has 1982 on the labels). January 21 1982 is a possible release date all the same - January and February releases are often marked as last year's product, cf. Burnt Weeny Sandwich, which was released in early 1970, while it says 1969 on the cover and labels.

Oh, and this thing sounds freaking good - I love it

_________________We make a special art in an environment hostile to dreamers. Frank Zappa, 1971

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